Safer or the same -- catching and shooting over a bay?

Everyone has there opinion, but like some said before we dont really let anyone we dont know or trust carry a gun. We have been in some sticky situations where the catchdog was a mile away and we jumped a big boar in a deep ravine and the dogs were gettin cut up pretty good so we will shoot em, and as for sayin we, I dont even trust myself enough to shoot over our dogs so either my buddy does or my stepdad because they are confident marksman. But I would rather catch and tie than shoot, we pull alot of our hogs out alive, I trust our catch dogs really good when runnin up to leg a hog I know for sure they arent going to let go. We have had a few dogs cut really bad but it seems after they are cut once they kinda learn there limits of a big hog and how close they can get. Out of all of our dogs not one of them have been cut more than twice and we have been on lots of big hogs that could have done some damage.